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The White House’s daily press briefing went off the rails almost immediately as Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders unveiled a bizarre recording from President Trump on twin television screens, immediately evoking comparisons to the Wizard of Oz or George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984.
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Today's 1984/Wizard of Oz hybrid is off to a wild start …. pic.twitter.com/yJT8hC6JV5
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 4, 2018
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Even though he was a few hundred feet away, the President couldn’t be bothered to address the press briefing himself and instead allowed Teleprompter Trump to recite a trite list of enormously exaggerated boasts about his “accomplishments.”
It’s only the latest weirdness in a profoundly bizarre week that began with the President comparing the size of his “nuclear bomb” button to that Kim Jong-un’s and proceeded into a wild day of rumor and scandal from the Fire and Fury book revelations.
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And it’s only Thursday.
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Social media, for its part, immediately recognized the potential for hilarity and quickly got to work.
Here’s a selection of the best responses:
— Guillotine Mindset (@SocialistTaco) January 4, 2018
— Bills Fan (@HaverOfOpinions) January 4, 2018
— Alazar Moges (@zarzarbinkss) January 4, 2018
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weird trump video statement during the press briefing pic.twitter.com/k0uEPVt4pw
— Alazar Moges (@zarzarbinkss) January 4, 2018
When you're so mentally fit to be president you send in a prerecorded message reading words off a cue card instead of walking over to speak to the press in a room in your own house pic.twitter.com/63dSo9DkMA
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) January 4, 2018
— Good Idea Dave (@DaveCoIon) January 4, 2018
— Orli Matlow (@HireMeImFunny) January 4, 2018
waaahhhhhhh pic.twitter.com/0zqfKOoY0j
— Colin Taylor (@ColsBols) January 4, 2018
